We Are
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps organizations build their digital core, optimize operations, accelerate revenue growth, and enhance services. We combine our strength in technology with deep industry experience, functional expertise, and global delivery capabilities to help clients reinvent how they operate and create lasting value.
Our Workday practice helps clients transform finance, human resources, planning, payroll, and related enterprise processes through Workday strategy, implementation, optimization, and application managed services. Our teams bring together business, functional, technical, data, integration, change, and program leadership capabilities to deliver measurable outcomes.
You Are
A delivery-focused Workday Project Manager who can bring structure to complex programs, build trusted client relationships, and lead cross-functional teams toward clear outcomes. You understand that successful Workday delivery requires more than maintaining a plan. It requires proactive decision-making, disciplined governance, transparent risk management, commercial awareness, and the ability to keep business and technology stakeholders aligned.
You are comfortable operating with senior client leaders, Workday functional and technical teams, third parties, and global delivery teams. You communicate clearly, anticipate issues before they become obstacles, and create an environment where teams can deliver high-quality work with accountability and confidence.
The Work
- Lead Workday implementation, deployment, optimization, or application managed services programs from mobilization through stabilization and transition.
- Own the integrated delivery plan, including scope, schedule, milestones, dependencies, resources, budget, deliverables, and acceptance criteria.
- Establish project governance, decision forums, status reporting, escalation paths, and documentation standards appropriate to the engagement.
- Drive cross-functional coordination across Workday functional workstreams, integrations, data conversion, security, reporting, testing, change management, training, cutover, and deployment.
- Partner with client sponsors and workstream leaders to clarify priorities, resolve decisions, manage expectations, and maintain alignment to business outcomes.
- Maintain active management of risks, actions, issues, decisions, assumptions, and dependencies, with clear owners, target dates, and escalation when progress stalls.
- Monitor delivery health and take timely corrective action to protect scope, schedule, quality, budget, and client satisfaction.
- Lead project financial management, including forecasting, staffing, utilization, change control, commercial tracking, and variances against the approved plan.
- Plan and facilitate executive steering committees, program leadership meetings, project status reviews, and working sessions that result in clear decisions and actions.
- Coordinate release, testing, cutover, readiness, and go-live activities, including entry and exit criteria, command-center planning, and stabilization governance.
- Ensure delivery methods, quality controls, security expectations, and contractual commitments are understood and followed across the project team.
- Lead, coach, and develop project management team members while promoting collaboration, inclusion, accountability, and sustainable ways of working.
- Build trusted relationships with clients, Workday, ecosystem partners, and internal stakeholders to support successful delivery and future opportunities.
- Contribute to sales pursuits, solution shaping, estimates, delivery approaches, staffing plans, proposals, and transition from sales to delivery.
- Capture lessons learned, reusable assets, and delivery insights that strengthen the Workday practice and improve future engagements.